Dan YorkFirst time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.
LukefromDCIf this was my shop, I would keep the sign but add an "except blind customers" note to it. Someone doing price research (an adverse party) has lots of cheaper and harder to detect spy cam options.
Allowing this use would however require having nothing in the shop that could put me or another person in danger if passed to Meta.
Use of these glasses by a sighted person I consider absolutely intolerable. On the other hand, any thing that can pass visual data to someone who has lost use of their eyes might be the difference between being their able to continue their life or not.
Someone needs to come up with a hack to allow blind folks to use these as eyes without passing data around them to Meta, who is sure to abuse it.
This could be done either of two ways. One is to hack the firmware to connect to an activist-owned server that does not store user data instead of Meta. Store only maps from OpenStreetMap etc, and process the video with a program that can identify clear corridors indoors and send that data back to the user. Do not store it.
The other approach would be to use a connection to a local computer with enough processing power to turn raw video into navigational directions. Hopefully a laptop in a backpack could not handle that.
Problem with a special version of these glasses sold for use by the blind would be sale (and thus PRICING) as "medical devices." Nobody would be able to afford them. Also zero advantage if the data is still handled by a corporate server.
A hacked set of these on the other hand, connected to a phone or laptop to run the software instead of sending it to Meta, and maybe inscribed text on the glasses saying "I am blind-these are my eyes" could do wonders.
RastaThere already is an APP to help the blind with what is in front of them, but it's not fed to a META server. once Meta sold your data once, paid the fine, and did it again, why would anyone trust them ever? There are existing APPS. I get anonymous BE MY EYES messages, like, are these pants clean, or which is the button for this feature?
I have no idea who, or where I am helping, I just answer them when they are directed to me, including a description of their surroundings. Don't sell your soul to META, and Cambridge Analytical And Palantir
and police depts, or ICE agents..